Only through suffering can we find ourselves.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

I punish myself for my whole life, my whole life I punish.

Beauty is mysterious as well as terrible. God and devil are fighting there, and the battlefield is the heart of man.

Nothing is easier than to denounce the evildoer; nothing is more difficult than to understand him.

You pass by a little child, you pass by, spiteful, with ugly words, with wrathful heart; you may not have noticed the child, but he has seen you, and your image, unseemly and ignoble, may remain in his defenseless heart. You don't know it, but you may have sown an evil seed in him and it may grow, and all because you were not careful before the child, because you did not foster in yourself a careful, actively benevolent love.

Remember, too, every day, and whenever you can, repeat to yourself, Lord, have mercy on all who appear before Thee today. For every hour and every moment thousands of men leave life on this earth, and their souls appear before God. And how many of them depart in solitude, unknown, sad, dejected that no one mourns for them or even knows whether they have lived or not!